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IV WT ITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her elbows on them and held her
head in both her hands . “ Are you tired of sitting here ? ” Heyst asked . An almost
imperceptible negative movement of the head was all the answer she made .
IV WT ITH her knees drawn up , Lena rested her elbows on them and held her
head in both her hands . “ Are you tired of sitting here ? ” Heyst asked . An almost
imperceptible negative movement of the head was all the answer she made .
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A dishevelled head , coming on like a cannonball , took the man at the pipe in
flank , with enough force to tear his grip loose and fling him headlong into the
stern - sheets . He fell upon the folded legs of the man at the tiller , who , roused
by the ...
A dishevelled head , coming on like a cannonball , took the man at the pipe in
flank , with enough force to tear his grip loose and fling him headlong into the
stern - sheets . He fell upon the folded legs of the man at the tiller , who , roused
by the ...
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By protruding his head a little he commanded , through the foliage of a festooning
creeper , a view of the three bungalows , irregularly disposed along a flat curve .
Over the veranda rail of the farthermost one hung a dark rug of a tartan pattern ...
By protruding his head a little he commanded , through the foliage of a festooning
creeper , a view of the three bungalows , irregularly disposed along a flat curve .
Over the veranda rail of the farthermost one hung a dark rug of a tartan pattern ...
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| Title | Victory: An Island Tale Volume 15 of Complete works, Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad Volume 15 of Complete works, Joseph Conrad Volume 15 of Works of Conrad Volume 15 of Works of Joseph Conrad in Twenty Volumes, Joseph Conrad Works, Joseph Conrad |
| Author | Joseph Conrad |
| Edition | 10 |
| Publisher | Methuen, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2018 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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